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When light and nutrient pollution collide: How do epiphytes react?

Mabuhay from Team Philippines! For the first time in the programme’s history, GAME takes place in the tropical country of – The Philippines! Composed of 7641 islands, the Philippines is an archipelagic country, surrounded by the waters of the South China Sea on its western seaboard and the Pacific Ocean on its eastern seaboard. Literally […]

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There’s good news: GAME 2025 has started!

For those who have never heard of GAME: the acronym stands for Global Approach by Modular Experiments, an internationally oriented research and training program in marine ecology that is in existence for over two decades now. Every year, young researchers from around the world – from Finland to Malaysia, from Japan to Chile – work […]

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Under the spotlight: Shedding light on the effects of light pollution on marine macroalgae in Pula

Pozdrav iz Pule! Meet Barbara and Catarina, two students to whom the Meeresschule (Marine School) in Pula is their home since April. Barbara (24) from Croatia is studying experimental biology, module physiology and immunobiology at The Faculty of Science in Zagreb. She is interested in implementing human health in the field of sustainable development, but […]

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Traze luz n escuridao – What happens to macroalgae when we deprive them of darkness? Pioneering research in Cabo Verde

Oi tud drt? – To read this Kriol words here, which say “Hi, everything fine?”, means GAME is back in Cabo Verde. This year, Melanie (Universidade Técnica do Atlântico, Cabo Verde) and Lotte (University of Freiburg, Germany) have the chance to work together as a binational team on a still largely unexplored topic: the influence […]

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Shedding some light – investigating the effects of light pollution on macroalgae off the Northwestern coast of Wales, UK

Snugly tucked in between the unpredictable currents of the Menai Strait and the jagged mountain ridges of Snowdonia lies the city of Bangor. Not so much a city, but rather a small town, Bangor is home to about 10,000 citizens and another 8,000 students who bring the town to life during lecture terms. Towering over […]

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Enlightenment in Japan – how artificial light at night influences local kelp forests.

いらっしゃいませ – welcome! Greetings GAME is back in Japan! Once again, an international two-person team, made up of a German and a Japanese student, is based at the Akkeshi Marine Station on Hokkaido, Japan, to contribute to this year’s pioneering research on the effect of artificial light at night on marine macroalgae. GAME GAME projects […]

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Hej från Åland

This year’s Finnish GAME team is made up of two German students, Saskia and Florentin, who are studying at the universities of Tübingen and Stuttgart, respectively. Our project is based at the Husö Biologiska Station on the beautiful Åland archipelago. It consists of thousands of small islands that are located in the Baltic Sea west […]